The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Fragment

Fragment

before 1948
Silk: lampas weave
Overall: 15.2 x 33.6 cm (6 x 13 1/4 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1948.501
Location: not on view

Description

On a blue ground is a pattern in white (now faded to cream) and red (now beige) of paired confronted birds repeated in staggered horizontal rows against scrolling foliation.
  • belongs to a group of textiles which were originally reported to have been found in a tomb in the necropolis at Rayy.
    ?-1948
    (Adolph Loewi [1888-1977], Los Angeles, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1948-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • “Part II. Annual Report Issue for the Year 1948.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 36, no. 6, 1949, pp. 111–142. Mentioned: p. 117 25141566
    Shepherd, Dorothy G. “Two Seljuk Silks from Raiy.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 37, no. 1, 1950, pp. 16–12. Mentioned: pp. 16-17; Reproduced: [unpaginated] 25141602
  • {{cite web|title=Fragment|url=false|author=|year=before 1948|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1948.501